Tombchest of Thomas Hemince 4 Metres to South West of South Transept of Church of St Materiana is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1987. Tombchest.
Tombchest of Thomas Hemince 4 Metres to South West of South Transept of Church of St Materiana
- WRENN ID
- cold-threshold-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1987
- Type
- Tombchest
- OS grid reference
- SX 050 884
- Coordinates
- 50.66288, -4.75972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a tombchest located 4 metres to the southwest of the south transept of the Church of St Materiana in Tintagel, dating from 1702. It commemorates Thomas, the son of John and Tamsin Hemince, who was killed by lightning that same year. The tombchest is made of slate stone rubble and features a rectangular slate lid. It is inscribed with a marginal inscription in upper case lettering and a verse in the central panel, which reflects on Thomas's tragic death and expresses themes of divine providence and judgment.
Local climate
Tombchest of Thomas Hemince 4 Metres to South West of South Transept of Church of St Materiana sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Child's Tombchest 65 Metres to South East of Church of St Materiana to North East of Headstone of Margaret Dangar
- 2 2 Tombchests of William Gardell and John Marten 1-3.5 Metres to South of Nave to West of South Porch of Church of St Julitta
- 3 Thomas Chest Tomb in the Churchyard About 6 Metres South of the South Transept of the Church of St Mary
- 4 Tombchest of Mary Ann and Joyce Bray 1 Metre to West of North Transept of Church of St Materiana
- 5 Thomas Chest Tomb at Approximately 3 Metres South of Porch of Church of St Paul
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Church of St Materiana
- Lychgate to South of Church of St Materiana
- Tintagel Cross War Memorial
- Lychgate to East of Church of St Materiana
- Gatehouse, Garden Walls to South West and North and Mounting Block on West, Tintagel Vicarage
- The Vicarage
- Dovecote, Tintagel Vicarage
- Vicarage Cottage
- The Old Post Office
- King Arthur's Castle Hotel